Insights for the Month of Leo

July 22nd
Sun enters Leo
Venus enters Virgo
Mars conjunct Jupiter
Full Moon at zero degrees AquariusDeep inside he heart of anyone or anything is the opposite. The Sun’s great light harbors a deep impenetrable darkness. We experience this if/when we sit alone and feel he vast expanse of inner space. It’s no easy. It can be scary. But as human beings we all have access to this Big Emptiness; for some it’s a darkness, unbearable and terrifying, to be avoided at all costs; for others this vast emptiness at the heart of the heart offers a path to bliss. Either way it requires a lot of energy. Rachel Naomi Remen has said, ‘The heart is an organ of vision, not a valentine’.Leo, of course, is all about the heart; your heart, my heart, the heart of the solar system.Today is a Big Heart day and while we’re at it we should remember that big as love can make us feel we need to stay grounded and whole as best we can in any given moment as well as using the potential we have to open our goodness to the larger group around us. Suffering seems to increase as climates of all sorts shift and change. We are actually all equipped to participate in the wild, crazy dance of chaos and change.

July 26th
Venus opposite Neptune and sextiles SaturnLove has so many guises and disguises. Consider yourself fortunate if your heart longs for something you can commit yourself to. Let longing mingle with the experience of making love manifest in your life.

July 27thMars opposite PlutoIt’s always the right thing to align our efforts at meeting our own needs with a sense of how it might effect others. Like ripples in a calm lake after the stone.

July 28thVenus sextiles JupiterEncourage abundance by doing the work of weeding, cleaning, healing, whole-making.

July 30thVenus trines PlutoThe mandate of ‘whole-making’ grows in urgency. Mend it, if it’s torn; cook it, if it will feed someone; and don’t forget to smudge, make the offering and cherish the fire in the hearth of your own life.

July 31stMars squares UranusAnything could hit the fan. there is no telling. But whatever hits, he issue will have at it’s root ‘What about me?’ and, ‘Why should I starve, suffer, work so hard, wait, while you get what you want?’ It’s a profound issue. Why some have and some don’t. We take it on early in childhood. Do we get what we deserve or do our fortunes simply arise out of circumstance based on other circumstance?

August 2ndVenus sextiles MarsWhat i want and what i have are inclined to support each other. As long as what-i-want is willing to consider the tension between need and want and what-i-have is willing to care in simple but meaningful ways for what is actually available.

August 4thSun trines UranusA day for fun and risk taking. Let the heart inspire All!

August 6thNew Moon; 14 degrees of Leo; 11:51 AM EDTIf you’re happy and you know it let someone else know it too. Inspire your life with the meditations of your heart.

August 7thJupiter opposite Pluto
People believe in the strangest things: Vegetables, meats, fats, exercise, capitalism, religions of all stripes, communism, all sorts of isms. Clearly there is more than one path to the truth. And some things just are and do not require belief or faith. Step mindfully on your path. It belongs to you alone.

August 8thMercury enters LeoThink creatively from the heart. Love is a power that can inform mind. The mind is not inherently loving.

August 11thMercury squares SaturnSlow down the speed of thought. Let the passionate heart attune to the guts.

August 14thMercury trines UranusThe past is over. Everyone will tell you that. Except possibly your memory. The present is full of future promise. Lean in if you can. if you simply cannot shake the past do something creative with it. Tell a story with words or music, collage or dance. Burn it in the fire of your essential longing for freedom.

August 16thVenus enters LibraIf you love art and/or culture; if you love justice and the process of law making, now is the time to take it to some height. Simply because you value it.

August 20thFull Moon at 28 degrees of AquariusWhat is summer for you? Whatever the answer, now is a time to engage it fully. Not because it’s good or bad; just because it’s summer.

August 21stJupiter square UranusUpside down, inside out and backwards are only some of the possibilities. Our needs for security, our beliefs about what is required to maintain that security ,challenges our need as humans to be free. This debate is the stuff of wars as well as great philosophy. There are some who believe we are most free when we are freely choosing to live generously compassionately and for the good of all no matter what our circumstances.